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Amy Bach

Visiting Scholar

Amy Bach is a doctoral candidate in Literacy Studies in the Graduate
School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research
interests center on the study of media, schooling, and the social
construction of knowledge and literacy; media production in
independent, non-commercial community media outlets; grassroots and
youth-produced audio and video documentaries and photography as
resources for social commentary and education; and the social,
political, economic, and cultural contexts of education and schooling
in society. Amy is a Co-Principal Investigator on one of the Social
Science Research Council funded collaborative projects in media and
communications. This year-long study entitled, "Youth Channel
All-City: Building a Municipal Infrastructure for Media Education,
Production, and Distribution", centered on the development and
implementation of a citywide community needs assessment that is being
used to develop the nation’s first non-commercial youth-dedicated cable
TV channel to all five boroughs of New York City. As a current Visiting
Scholar at Temple University’s School of Communication and Theater, Amy
is also involved in designing an integrated media arts and literacy
program for an alternative school that works with Philadelphia youth
who have dropped out of the public school system and who seek an
alternative pathway to education.

Our Mission

The Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island advances media literacy education through research and community service. We emphasize interdisciplinary scholarship and practice that stands at the intersections of communication, media studies and education.